Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Comic-con costumes I think are funny or cool(i wont tell which is which byaaah). Part 1.
I shall post more later...
Monday, July 26, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
World War Z
The film adaptation of World War Z has had a drawn out development history, but even still, it always looked like it would eventually happen.
Now, breaking news from San Diego Comic-Con further supports the idea that we’ll soon see this movie in theaters. MTV has just reported from the show floor of Comic-Con that World War Z is officially moving forward with Brad Pitt attached to star. The news comes from World War Z author Max Brooks, who says that the film is currently slated for a summer 2012 release. Marc Forster is still supposed to direct.
“I can’t believe how cool Paramount has been to me and these projects, and how cool Plan B has been,” Brooks said, referring to Brad Pitt’s production company. You can read up on some of the project’s history by clicking here. The plot synopsis of the book follows after the jump:
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.
Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, “By excluding the human factor, aren’t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn’t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as ‘the living dead’?
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Peter Jackson meeting with ‘Hobbit’ actors
As you know, Guillermo del Toro recently stepped down from directing the big screen adaptation of The Hobbit, leaving the project in complete limbo. Warner Bros has been searching for a replacement, talking to directors David Yates (Harry Potter), David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers, Fred Claus), and Brett Ratner about the job, but rumor had it that Warner Bros and MGM were still trying to talk Lord of the Rings director Peter
It was later reported that Jackson was in fact negotiating a deal to direct the two halves himself, and that the filmmaker has been busy extracting himself from other obligations. But Jackson using a fake pen name, has downplayed the development to AICN. And the latest we’ve heard is that the production delay could cost the film some prominent actors such as Sir Ian McKellen. But now we have learned that Jackson has been quietly meeting with actors in Los Angeles this week about the upcoming Lord of the Rings prequel.
The news comes from HeatVision, who claims that Jackson’s deal to direct the two Hobbit films is almost done, but they are waiting on the MGM financial situation to clear up before any decisions can be made.Warner Bros is said to be “furiously negotiating with MGM, which is being steered by a committee of creditors and financial stakeholders.” Jackson’s Hobbit casting
Jackson co-wrote the scripts, is already on board as a producer, and he could shoot both films in his New Zealand backyard. But Warner Bros will need
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
oh shit terminators
Two robots with surveillance, tracking, firing and voice recognition systems were integrated into a single unit, a defence ministry spokesman said.
The robot uses heat and motion detectors to sense possible threats, and alerts command centres, Yonhap said.
If the command centre operator cannot identify possible intruders through the robot's audio or video communications system, the operator can order it to fire its gun or 40mm automatic grenade launcher.
Monday, July 12, 2010
we gonna die
Scientists now worry that much more than oil is leaking out at dangerous levels, including a massive amount of methane, and the BP-imposed blackout that is keeping scientists and reporters away from the leak is only escalating fears.
Texas A&M University's Dr. John Kessler, an oil industry expert, theorizes that the leak at the ruptured well could be 40%, and with the volume that's going into the water, that's a lot of methane. As if that wasn't bad enough, a huge gash has been discovered not 10 miles from the BP leak, which itself could be adding more oil and methane to the mix.
So, what happens? Well, if the methane concentration in the Gulf -- which Kessler and his team have said is "one million times the normal level" -- erupts, it could create tsunamis, dead zone areas devoid of oxygen, poisonous rainfall and even collapse the sea floor.
